SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A conservative legal group has filed a lawsuit against the superintendent and school board members for the Chico Unified School District, alleging that a district employee helped a fifth grade student transition their gender identity without informing the child’s parent.
The Center for American Liberty, founded by attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who is campaigning to be chair of the Republican National Committee, filed the lawsuit on Jan. 6.
It contends that in 2021, an 11-year-old fifth grade student told a school counselor that they were transgender, prompting the counselor and teachers to refer to the child by a male name and male pronouns.
